Questions tagged [mutt]
35 questions
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set mutt default Maildir folder
I have recently set up a mail server running postfix as the MTA, and dovecot as the imap/pop3 daemon. Originally, and by default on Debian, it was using the mbox format. For reliability reasons, I decided that it would be best to use the Maildir…
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Ryan H
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Can I compile mutt under cygwin?
I've been trying to compile mutt under cygwin for a few days. The included version is outdated and does not include things I need like header caching. Anyways, I always get the message:
"configure: error: no curses library found"
I have all the…
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math0ne
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mutt: open reply to a message
I am trying to find a way in mutt to jump to my reply to a mail.
To be precise: I have a mail from someone else open in mutt and I replied to that mail - a copy of that reply is in the sent folder. Now I want mutt to show me that reply, when I press…
Prof. MAAD
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Configuring mutt to send e-mail over an SSH tunnel
I want to be able to send email from mutt through an SSH tunnel I can SSH into the SMTP server, but I don't know how to tell mutt how to use the tunnel to send e-mail.
Can someone help me out, please?
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devin
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email notification using Maildir
I've a postfix server to deliver local emails using Maildir format. Inside home users I've
cat /home/$USER/.muttrc
set from="user1@example.com"
set realname="user1"
set mbox_type=Maildir
set folder="~/Maildir"
set mask="!^\\.[^.]"
set…
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watchmansky
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mutt, smime, decrypt with one of two different keys
This is an odd one.
We want to have an encrypted e-mail list. There are a few ways to do this, but in the interim what we've done is created a public/private keypair via openssl for our e-mail list (list@foo.org) and then distributed the…
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munin
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how to prevent duplicated mail without deleting mails on server
I run getmail + maildrop to get all mails locally, but every time getmail runs, it will download a copy of all messages.
even setting delete option in getmail or mailfilter config does not help
the related config:
[options]
verbose = 5
read_all =…
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sarabande
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How can I send emails from the command line with recipient tab-completion and proper file attachment?
A year ago I tried a couple of different email senders because I wanted to simplify sending emails from the command line. There are a couple of tools for it, I tried (I don't remember exactly):
sendmail
mail
xmail
ssmtp
uuencode
some mime scripts…
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Sebastian
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Growing mutt temporary file problem when sending attachments
I have an automysqlbackup.sh script that backs up and sends the database via cron. The script uses mutt to send the compressed file as attachment. I am on a shared hosting server.
It looks like mutt creates a temporary file named 'sent' in my home…
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bluegray
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Mutt open mailbox
When I start Mutt, the default mailbox is whatever is in the $MAIL environment variable.
How can I startup Mutt, pointing to a different mailbox rather than $MAIL, or better still, how can I change the current mailbox from within Mutt?
I have a clue…
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bobobobo
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Configure Local Mail on Ubuntu
My cron jobs are trying to mail their results using the local mail feature of Ubuntu (not internet email, the kind of mail you can read with mutt). However, /var/log/syslog reports
/USR/SBIN/CRON[19212]: (speedtax) MAIL (mailed 52 bytes of output…
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Eric J.
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Procmail seems not being executed when fetching emails with fetchmail
I have the following problem:
I got a new working PC (Debian testing, codenme: stretch) recently and had to reinstall fetchmail and procmail in order to read my emails with mutt.
Now, fetchmail works well as also mutt is doing, only the spool…
relativitaet
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Default save-hook in mutt
I have multiple specific save-hooks defined for patterns. But for mail that doesn't match any of these, I would like to have a specific default. Right now mutt just takes the last of the defined save-hooks and uses that as a default.
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Steen
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connect to groupwise mbox with mutt
I am try to extract the GroupWise mailbox userlist and emails via script.
I am told that Groupwise is in mbox format mutt looks for .maildir which does not exist on a Novell server.
How can I administratively access the Groupwise mbox via the…
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bro
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Disabling network access for a group of users but allowing smtp only
We have an environment where our users ssh into the system and their shell is set to simply launch Mutt on their $HOME/Maildir. We want to restrict our users to only be able to send/receive mail. We realize they can't arbitrary commands since they…
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unixpipe
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